Wind, rain and rocks : the discovery of West Connacht geology 1800-1950
Mohr, Paul
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Inphrionta:
Paul Mohr : Clodoiri Lurgan, 2000.
Leathanaigh in ord:
[12 ] 60p. : ports., bibl ; pb
Nótaí:
Information on Richard Griffith (Griffith's Valuation), Richard Kirwan and a number of geologists and engineers associated with Galway.
Contents:
prologue [ Anathemata [poem] / David Jones ] -- the setting : crystal & blood -- Galway foundations [ dark-green amphibolite gneiss ] -- men of means and toilsome leisure [ Roderick O'Flaherty ; Richard Kirwan ; Mr. Subrine -- Joseph Woods ] -- 'two-man' Alexander Nimmo and contemporaries [ Mary Louisa Attersol, wife of Henry Blake of Renvyle House -- Charles Lewis Giesecke -- Robert Mallet ] -- Richard Griffith : one-man geological survey and Father of Irish geology -- northern lights [ Patrick Knight in Mayo -- Revd. Joseph Verschoyle A.M. ] -- enter William King and the Geological Survey of Ireland mappers -- contentions and conundra [ Frederick M'Coy -- John Kelly -- Roderick Impey Murchison ] -- interlude for gentleman amateurs [ James Beete Jukes -- John Birmingham ] -- mining heydey in the West -- A contrast of styles : quiet King , querulous Kinehan [ William King , George Henry Kinehan -- Robert Harkness -- Edward Hull -- Charles Callaway ] -- fin de siècle [ Richard John Anderson -- Robert Joseph Kirwan -- Archibald Geikie -- James Robinson Kilroe -- Grenville Arthur James Cole -- Charles Irving Gardiner -- Sidney Hugh Reynolds ] -- between the two Wars : ( professor Davies' "the lean years") [Henry Brenan Cronshaw -- James Mitchell -- Lawrence Rickard Wager -- Leonora 'Nora' Ingold (née Kemp)-- the great revival -- a price paid -- a new window on the Western world [ plate tectonics ] -- A Caledonian Afterthought [poem] / Paul Mohr -- bibliography.
ISBN:
998845600X (invalid)
I dteanga:
English
Réimse:
BRN:
469785